Sources said that the raid took place as the Anti-Corruption Branch has registered a case against Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar. The case is of criminal misconduct against Rajender and other private people.

Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the raid, Kejriwal tweeted, “CBI raids my office. When Narendra Modi couldn’t handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice. Modi is a coward and a psycopath.”

Defending the government over the raid, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said, “We don’t control the CBI. It is fashionable to blame the Prime Minister.”